Ninety Cents Butter chords by Oscar Brand
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Verse 1
(D major) Come everybody, listen while I (G major) sing
This high cost of living is a (A major) terrible thing
(D major) Every (G major) day you go (D major) in to a (G major) store
Prices hit the (A major) ceiling just a little bit more
You buy a piece of (D major) bread
and some corned beef hash
All (G major) you got left (A major) is petty cash
Look (G major) at your dollar now, what do you see?
It's only (A major) half as big as it used to be
90 (D major) cents butter and 90 cents meat
How in the heck can (A major) a poor
man (D major) eat?
Wintertime comes,
there's a Dickens to pay.
Food (G major) goes up in the (A major) same old (D major) way.
(G major) Cold gettin' higher and the
(D major) kids gotta dress.
(A major) How you gonna do it is
anybody's guess.
(D major) Even the bugs in the kitchen sink.
I (G major) pick it in the pantry for (A major) food and drink.
If I (G major) don't get clothes and (D major) food to boot,
I'll (G major) starve to death (A major) in my birthday suit.
Cause (D major) 90 cents butter and 90 cents meat.
How in the heck can a (A major) poor man (D major) eat?
I tell you folks, you work hard all your life,
Sup (G major) portin' your kids and
some (A major) times your (G major) wife.
Things gettin' higher,
(D major) kinda feelin' sick,
Somethin' (G major) gotta (A major) happen and it gotta
happen quick.
Your congressman's (D major) workin'
hard every day,
(G major) Figurin' out how to cut (A major) down your pay.
(G major) Gotta give that boy somethin' (D major)
to remember
When you (G major) meet him at the polls
some (A major) cold November.
One (D major) ninety cents butter and
ninety cents meat,
How in the heck can a (A major) poor man (D major) eat?
You remember the days
when butter and meat
Was the (G major) natural food for folk (A major) s to eat.
(D major) I (G major) never had much as I (D major) now recall,
But (G major) nowadays I'm (A major) lucky when I eat at all.
I'm (D major) living in the hope I'll eat someday
Before (G major) my body just (A major) wastes away.
(D major) If they (G major) don't cut the price
of a (D major) piece of cow
Ain't (A major) gonna linger, I'll starve right now.
With ninety cents (D major) butter
and ninety cents meat
How in the heck can a (A major) poor man (D major) eat?
And when you go and ask them
the cause of it all
They hand (G major) you a line about (A major) ten foot tall
(D major) Moan (G major) and groan and
(D major) tear their hair about
The (A major) high cost of being a millionaire
Take (D major) a full -page ad in the
evening news (G major)
They blame it on Negroes
and (A major) Reds and Jew (D major) s
Well, I was (G major) born in the bushes,
I was (D major) raised in the woods
They (G major) can't sell (D major) me that (A major) line of goods
Ninety (D major) cents butter and ninety cents peas
How in the heck can (A major) a poor man (D major) eat?
Ninety Cents Butter
Oscar Brand
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